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- Title
Disease Mapping and Public Health Decision-Making: Report of a WHO Meeting.
- Authors
Bertollini, Roberto; Martuzzi, Marco
- Abstract
The article reports on the international workshop organized by the European Initiative in Disease Mapping and Risk Assessment and the World Health Organization's European Center for Environment and Health. The workshop is aimed at reviewing the current development of methods for geographic epidemiological studies to reach consensus on the techniques for orienting public health policy decisions. The workshop was held in Rome, Italy from October 2-4, 1997. The workshop emphasized the usefulness of geographic analyses of the distribution of risk factors in public health decision making.
- Subjects
ROME (Italy); CONFERENCES &; conventions; EPIDEMIOLOGY; PUBLIC health; HEALTH policy; WORLD health; WORLD Health Organization; DECISION making
- Publication
American Journal of Public Health, 1999, Vol 89, Issue 5, p780
- ISSN
0090-0036
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2105/AJPH.89.5.780